'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian 'Juan Marsé's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary Supplement From one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona. Teresa is everything he wants. She is beautiful, charming, rebellious, and born with every advantage in life. He has only ever existed on the margins. A poor immigrant from Murcia, earning his living stealing and selling motorbikes, he could only ever dream of being with the daughter of the Catalan bourgeoisie. When their desires take hold, they must face the realities of a world designed to keep them apart. With Last Evenings with Teresa, Marsé has created a portrait of two unforgettable literary heroes whose love affair captures all the tensions, passions and contradictions of a generation living in the shadow of a civil war but who, despite the odds, continue to dream. 'Last Evenings with Teresa ... has everything one can ask of a novel; it seems to have been written in a state of grace' Javier Cercas 'Between illusions and realities, with his own free creative will - the opposite of the recipe for a social novel - Juan Marsé offered a memorable panorama of 1950s Barcelona and its wild heroism' Lluís Izquierdo 'I consider Juan Marsé the best storyteller Spanish literature has given us in many decades' Ignacio Echevarría 'He has never written a single page where something interesting isn't happening' Eduardo Mendoza 'One of Spain's most acclaimed writers' New York Times

フアン・マルセが描くのは、戦後バルセロナの眩い光と残酷な階級の断絶です。令嬢テレサと貧しい青年ピホアパルテの恋は、単なるロマンスを超え、欺瞞に満ちた社会への強烈な皮肉として昇華されています。マルセの筆致には情熱的な渇望と冷徹な眼差しが同居しており、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 実写化により都市風景は生々しく補完されましたが、白眉は小説特有の饒舌な美学にあります。活字に刻まれた内面的な葛藤と、映像が映し出す光と影。この二つが重なる時、幻想が崩れ去る瞬間のカタルシスは頂点に達します。歴史の影で夢を追い続ける者たちの叫びを、ぜひその身で感じてください。